Another reason that I have not seen in the post or the comments is that there are intense selection pressures against doing things differently from the successful people of previous generations.
Most prehistoric cultural and technological accumulation seems to have happened by “natural selection of ideas and tool-making”, not by directed innovation.
Another reason that I have not seen in the post or the comments is that there are intense selection pressures against doing things differently from the successful people of previous generations.
Most prehistoric cultural and technological accumulation seems to have happened by “natural selection of ideas and tool-making”, not by directed innovation.
See https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/